Lithopolis, OH
Lithopolis wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lithopolis at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 879 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lithopolis's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Lithopolis's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Lithopolis's 879 counted buildings, 42.4% carry Direct exposure and only 15.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Lithopolis compares
Compare Lithopolis's two percentiles: 41st within Ohio, only 14th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lithopolis ranks 27,050 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,920 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 742 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 14th national percentile, Lithopolis rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Lithopolis's 42.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lithopolis's 27,050-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lithopolis, see the exposure-zones guide.